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Good award presentations come from good preparation. Terryberry’s Award Presentation Cheat Sheet is a popular resource that helps presenters prepare for  employee recognition presentations.  The cheat sheet gives presenters tips on how to give an employee recognition speech and what to say in order to create a moment to remember.  Using the downloadable PDF, award […]

It’s that time of year again – This week is Nurses Week and May 12th is International Nurses Day. Each year on May 12th, we mark our calendars as a day to celebrate the hard-working nursing staff that gives so much on a daily basis. Why May 12th? It’s the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the […]

Out with the old and in with the new. Celebrating the new year has become synonymous with embracing change, shrugging off past mistakes, and promising to try better with the clean slate that a new page on the calendar brings. So, while 2019 is still young, let’s talk about five (easy to keep) New Year’s […]

Recognition Holidays are around each and every corner. Lucky for you, Terryberry did the research. Feast your eyes on the official Recognition Holiday Calendar 2019 Edition! Download the full calendar as a PDF or browse holidays by month. Download Calendar You’ll find well-known days, such as National Boss’s Day in October and Administrative Professionals’ Day in April, but you’ll […]

Stress. We all deal with this unpleasant, yet unavoidable, aspect of life. It affects us in perhaps more ways than we realize. Some of its manifestations are obvious: difficulty sleeping, anxiety, irritability, headaches, or muscular tension. Yet stress also affects our long-term health and can wreak havoc on our systems in silent and unseen ways […]

Boss’s Day rolls around once a year, on a crisp October day when trees are just turning orange and gold, and we arrive to our offices with pumpkin lattes in hand. Before all of the fall and winter holidays consume all of our attention, we should take time to celebrate another holiday, Boss’s Day, and […]

What do Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of General Motors Company, and Lily Beck Wilson, founder and owner of Veils by Lily, have in common? Through an entrepreneurial spirit and good old-fashioned hard work, they are powerful business women who have formed successful careers and are influencing the world in positive ways.  September 22 is […]

by Brad Sytsma At Terryberry, we’ve seen a lot of recognition trends over the last hundred years. We’ve made it our mission to help our clients stay ahead of the curve. 360 Recognition makes peer to peer recognition, manager-driven recognition, and service anniversary recognition so easily accessible, that sometimes other areas for recognition may be overlooked. […]

When starting a new job, you hope to feel welcome and as though you are an important part of the group. If that welcoming spirit is absent, you might be likely to bail and seek out another opportunity before ever really settling in. To combat the problem of new employee turnover that organizations face, you need […]

Handshakes can be serious or fun, formal or informal. Think about meeting someone new at a business meeting or a job interview, about negotiating an agreement, closing a deal, greeting a friend, celebrating a victory, or even accepting defeat. What do all of those situations have in common? A handshake. It’s such a common part […]